A whole side of the fish behind the miso dish Nobu Matsuhisa made famous.
It's hearty enough to take a good sear and rich enough that it won't dry out or easily overcook, and it breaks into big, buttery flakes. Try our Miso-Glazed Black Cod recipe to see how it shines with Eastern flavors!
Three ways, depending on your kitchen. In the oven, set the whole side on a parchment-lined sheet pan, rub the top with oil and salt, and roast it hot at 400F. On the grill, lay it straight on the grates or a grill tray and close the lid, since black cod holds together well over fire. In the pan, cut it into portions, sear them two to three minutes a side in a hot oiled skillet, then finish them in a 400F oven. Any way you go, cook it until it reaches 145F and flakes with a fork.
For the classic, cut the side into portions, marinate them in sweet miso for one to two days, broil them until the tops brown, then finish them in a 400F oven until they reach 145F. Cook pieces of similar thickness together, since tail pieces are thinner and finish before center cuts. Our Miso-Glazed Black Cod recipe, inspired by Nobu Matsuhisa's dish, takes you through it step by step.
Your whole black cod side, vacuum-sealed and flash-frozen at peak freshness, then packed with dry ice to arrive frozen. Keep it frozen until you are ready; to thaw, cut the bag open and leave it in the refrigerator for 24 hours before cooking.
Our fish comes straight from the fishermen who catch it, line-caught one at a time in the cold waters of Southeast Alaska, then frozen once at peak freshness. Single-origin and wild.
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Sea to Table
Fish the right way - from the boat to your table.
Fish From a Fisherman
From a fisherman-owned co-op that controls every step, catch to cut.
Wild & Sustainable
Our fish is always wild and sustainably caught.
Single-Origin Alaska
From the pristine, cold waters of Southeast Alaska, and nowhere else.
Where it’s from
Black Cod · Anoplopoma fimbria · Southeast Alaska
Hook-and-line caught one fish at a time in deep water off Southeast Alaska, cleaned and iced soon after the catch, then frozen a single time at the peak of freshness. Black cod is no cod at all. Its market name is sablefish, and adults live more than 650 feet down in the North Pacific. NOAA calls it the highest-valued finfish per pound in Alaska and West Coast fisheries because of its rich oil. The meat is soft and velvety, with large white flakes. When Nobu Matsuhisa opened his restaurant, Matsuhisa, in Beverly Hills in 1987, he had no money, by his own account, so he bought black cod at 25 cents a pound and cured it in miso. Black cod with miso is now the most popular dish at Matsuhisa, and the cooperative we buy from says that before Nobu, almost all of its black cod went to Japan.
Hook-and-line caught in the cold waters of Southeast Alaska, single-frozen at the peak of freshness, and landed by a fisherman-owned co-op we know by name. If something's not right, we make it right.
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